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My view on information

Posted By: Bill Calton
Date: Sunday, 30 January 2011, at 3:46 p.m.

In Response To: My view on information (Michael Petch)

While the reasoning may be quite different, big government types and free-market types should logically both be against intellectual property, patents, copyrights and the like.

From the market side, here is a key insight. What the patent-owner enjoys is the legal right to prevent you from doing things with your property! see here http://fee.org/articles/tgif/intellectual-property

Here is an interesting rant that the result of our copyright system is to keep great works (literature, music) of the past forever dormant and inaccessible.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker128.html

And from the same author, he takes on the counter-argument that innovation would cease without patent protection.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker135.html

For the whole case in detail, see the book Against Intellectual Property by Boldrin and Levine, which happens to available in print and free on-line.

http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstnew.htm

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